title: Gold from the sea: marine compounds as inhibitors of the hallmarks of cancer.
abstract: Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases in the world. Although advances in the field of chemo-preventive and therapeutic medicine have been made regularly over the last ten years, the search for novel anticancer treatments continues. In this field, the marine environment, with its rich variety of organisms, is a largely untapped source of novel compounds with potent antitumor activity. Although many reviews of marine anticancer compounds have been published, we focus here on selected marine compounds that act on the six hallmarks of cancer presented namely self-sufficiency in growth signals, insensitivity to anti-growth signals, evasion of apoptosis, limitless replication, sustained angiogenesis and tissue invasion and metastasis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du Cancer, Hôpital Kirchberg, 9 Rue Edward Steichen, L-2540 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schumacher
authors.forename: Mareike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kelkel
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dicato
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diederich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects; D059001:Aquatic Organisms / Q000737:chemistry*; D001688:Biological Products / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001709:Biotechnology; D048708:Cell Growth Processes / Q000187:drug effects; D055808:Drug Discovery; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D001688:Biological Products